[miss marmelstein]

All the royal family drives themselves. In fact, Diana was such a whiz behind the steering wheel, the press has said that if she had been driving the night of her fatal accident, she’d be alive today.

The Queen is a skilled mechanic. Princess Anne has racked up at least 40 years worth of tickets.

We need to stop coddling our politicians. It makes them soft, lazy and corrupt.

[sport]

I think that the Queen drove trucks in WWII.

[Covenantor]

.and it was decided that Elizabeth must not enlist in anything, that her training for the throne was of the first importance. But Elizabeth felt that she would be a slacker and carry about an inferiority complex for life. So for a year, relentlessly, she persisted. Just before her nineteenth birthday, her father gave in. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service as an auto mechanic and driver..."

Source: http://oldmagazinearticles.com/Queen_Elizabeth_II_During_WW2